Food for thought, Raw Chicken!

[Mahonri]

As a dentist, I see gum infections all the time caused by folks who have eaten poorly cooked chicken that was contaminated.

 

[rizq]

I am not doubting you, just curious, how do you know contaminated chicken was the culprit?

 

[Mahonri]

I pulled it (pieces of chicken) out from between their teeth! Asked them when they last ate chicken... etc...

 

[rizq]

yuck!

Glad I don't tend to eat undercooked chicken. Now I'll probably be running for the dental floss after every meal though

 

[Bleenstar]

haha i never had chicken ever gotten stuck in my teeth, crab shells and fish bones.....thats a different story!!!!

just to let everyone know, Raw chicken should not be eaten in the United States , I just read like...hundreds(not really) of articles regarding food poisoning and undercooked chicken. (scary)

Japan is basically a GRADE A(?) country. They are clean as heck which makes traveling with pets a pain. As long as your plane touches japan (intentionally or not) , whatever animal that's in the plane have to go into quarantine... poor babies.

Mahonri, your patients need to floss more D:, and use...Listerine, the yellow kind ( it can make my tile floor sparkling white!! works better then any floor cleaners on market, it takes out stubborn grime and dirt very nicely haha imagine what it can do to your teeth... )

 

[WoodlandWoman]

I wouldn't think well cooked chicken rotting between your teeth would be very good for your gums, either! Eww! I guess some people really don't floss.

I would eat raw food in Japan, that I wouldn't touch here. It makes a huge difference how things are raised, butchered and handled, before they hit your plate.

It's important to wash all produce before eating it or cutting it open to eat the insides. You never know what may have walked over the top of it, before it got to your house. Cutting something open transfers whatever was on the outside, to the inside of the produce. I still watch my husband like a hawk, around melons. Did you wash that???

It's better if I just handle all the food.

 

[walkswithdog]

I'd think anything you let get stuck between your teeth and fester would produce an infection. Ewww, can you say FLOSS?

I've eaten raw meat or under cooked meat (of several kinds) all my life, continue to, no problems. Raw eggs, no problems, unpasturized milk and goat milk, no problems. Go figure.

It's important where it came from and how it was handled.

Part of it is the simple strength or not of your digestive and immune system, and your overall health.

As a ranch junky and garden nerd kid, and chronic camper, then Army all over the world, I never developed the germ freakiness that possesses the american public today.

The harder they try to make everything sterile the sicker they seem to become. Thanks but no thanks.

Good habits, yes. Sterile habits, never. (Though i recommend sterile environments for surgery

)

The harder people try to be utterly 'safe', the weaker they become, in many areas of life, mentally, physically, emotionally.

YMMV

 

[rizq]

Totally agree with that! We don't do our immune systems any favors by never giving them any exercise, lol.

 

[Bleenstar]

OH OH...maybe if we eat enough salmonella...we'll get immune to it

THEN we can eat chickens in the states RAW.. wohoo...

 

[rizq]

That is not exactly what I meant, lol.